Adjustable window screen



March 1929' H. EVERHARD ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SCREEN Filed July 13, 1926 Patented Mar. 5, 192 9. 7 w

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFic HARRY H. EVERHARD, OF CANTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE EVER'HARD MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, OF CANTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SCREEN.

/ Application filed July 13, 1926. Serial No. 122,115.

The invention relates to screens and pan In adjusting the screen; to place the same I t-icularly to adjustable ventilating or fly in a window, is customary for the user to screens for windows, and the object of the grasp each frame section, near the outer end improvement is to provide an adjust-able bar 3 thereof andat a pointmidway be screen frame formed of two relatively movtween. the top and bot-tom, between the able frame sections carrying cloth or wire thumb and fingers. The thumb naturally fabric and provided at the outer end bar extends within the frame section. and'bears of each frame section with a metal tab eX- upon the fabric, pressing the same inward tending over the fabric to serve as a finger and, especially in the case of a cloth fabric,

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grip or support and prevent the thumb or causing it to become baggy and in many fingers from being pushed through the fabcases to be torn or pulled loose from the ric when adjusting the screen. frame. p

The above and other objects may be at- To overcome this diiliculty, a metal tab 4: tained by providing an adjustable frame is provided at the inner edge flange portion formed of two sections ad'ustabl connected 3? of each outer bar 3 in close )roXimit a l .V

together in any usual andu'ell known manwith the screen fabric 2 preferably at a point ner, the protecting tabs being formed intemidway l etw-en the top and bottom of the grally with or secured to the outer end bars frame, where itmay be naturally grasped of the frame sections extending inwardly at and will receive the thrust of the thumband points substantially midway between the top the fingers engaging the opposite side of the and bottom thereof, and being substantially end bar a Sh wn i d tt d li i Fi 2, triangular in shape and having a length The frame may thus be grasped tight-l along the end bar greater than the inwardly between the thumb and fingers of each hand extending length. without danger of pushing the thumb .An embodiment of the invention is illusthrough the fabric as all of the pressure extrated in the accompanying drawing, in erted by the thumb is directly upon the which metal tab 4- thus protecting the fabric.

Figure 1 1s a front elevation of the 1111- For the purpose of economy in producproved ad ustable screen, and tion these tabs may be formed separate from Fig. 2 a section on the line 2-2, Fig. the end of the frame and spotwelded Similar numerals refer to similar parts or other ise connected ther to as indicated throughout the drawing. at 5 in Figure 1, although it should be un- The i'leell is 1101mm of P of {1111110 derstood that the tabs may be r mmed intescctions I mounted for .slidable :uljustment. l ly with th a d bars. if d ir d, g with reference to each other, in any usual it clai g5 and well known manner. These frai'nes may A screen comprising a frame, a fabric carbe made of metal, AS illustrated in the drawric l by the frag e and a "fabric protecting ing, and each frame is covered with fabric, tab carricdby and extending inwardly from shown at 2, which may be either cloth or the inner edge of the frame in close proximwire, depending upon whether the screen is ity with the fabric in petition to receive designed for use as a ventilating screen or the thumb when the fran'ie is grasped by fly screen. thumb and lii'igers of a hand to place the Each outer bar 3. has a cross sectional conscreen in a window openingor remove it figuration well shown in 2, and may intherefrom. I elude a U-shaped channel portion 3 from In testimony that I claim the above. I 9- which ext-ends laterally the flange portions have hereunto subscribed my name. 3 and 3. The channel portion 3 receives the rod 3 which securely clamps the edge HARRY H. EVERHARD. portion of the screen fabric 2 within the U- I shaped channel. 

